Re: Guillemet

[Ludovic Courtès]

Salut,

Benoit Bidoggia <address@hidden> writes:

> Hi, I thought that the empy braces were useful
> when you do something like this:

No, `{}' is like address@hidden', and address@hidden' does not simply "output 
nothing"
(see the Expert Guide).

> @LP
> Le renard~: <<~Ah, monsieur ... beau~>>.
>
> I read that in French the "double signs", like
> ", <<, >>, ?, !, ;, :, have to be preceded by
> a fixed space, I use ~.

Right.  This is why I usually use (in French) something along the lines
of:

  def "<<"
          precedence 10
          right word
  { { @Char guillemotleft  }" "{ word } }


  def ">>"
          precedence 10
          left  word
  { { word }" "{ @Char guillemotright } }


Plus similar things for parentheses, colon, question marks, etc.  But
these are more intrusive and may yield various problems.

For example, when one uses parentheses within an address@hidden' `xticks' or
equivalent, one doesn't want the modified definitions of `(' and `)' to
be taken into account because that would just break address@hidden'.  I haven't
found any way to solve this.

Thanks,
Ludovic.